At least one person has been confirmed dead following an airstrike on a residential building in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Monday ahead of fresh talks with Russia.
According to the country’s emergency service, scores of residents were injured during the attack by Russian forces.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Russian troops had continued to edge closer to the city even as they kept up their siege of the southern port city of Mariupol, where officials said about 2,200 people have been killed so far.
‘As of 7:40 am (0540 GMT) one person was found dead in a nine-storey apartment building’ in the capital’s Obolon district, the emergency service said in a statement, on Monday.
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Meanwhile, Ukrainian and Russian representatives are expected to meet via videoconference for peace talks later Monday (today).
Last week, Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the Government of the United States has concluded plans to send $13.6 billion in humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine after the US House approved a $1.5 trillion spending bill to keep the government’s doors open for the next six months.
Africa Daily News,, New York gathered that the bill included more than $4 billion which would enable the country assist Ukraine and others in Eastern Europe grappling with the millions of refugees fleeing the former Soviet republic following Russia’s invasion two weeks ago.
Nearly $7 billion would go into backfilling the transfer of US military equipment to Ukraine and its allies, as well as cover the current and future deployment of American troops and equipment to defend NATO in the troubled region.
Speaking last Thursday, US President Joe Biden reiterated that he would not send troops to Ukraine despite the pressure to do so.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
